The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is Great Britain's oldest botanical garden facility, originally founded in 1621 as a medicinal research garden by Henry Danvers. Today, the garden remains one of the world's oldest scientific gardens and is home to more than 6,000 plant species grown on its 4.5-acre campus, making it one of the most diverse compact collections of plants in the world. Its grounds famously served as the inspiration for iconic settings in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings novels. A walled garden area is home to 17th-century stonework and the oldest tree in the Garden, while a number of conservatory glasshouses cultivate plantings of native and exotic flora and fauna from around the world. Outside the walled garden area, the Garden's lower garden landscape abuts the River Cherwell and showcases dry grassland plantings able to withstand drought conditions.
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